GNOME-Network-Displays Available With Ubuntu 22.10 For Miracast Wireless Displays

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME-Network-Displays Available With Ubuntu 22.10 For Miracast Wireless Displays

Among the new applications becoming available with Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" later this month is GNOME-Network-Displays for dealing with Miracast wireless displays...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-22.10-Miracast-GNOME

[linuxgeex]

A DRM driver and a way to subscribe/trust a display device would be handy, so that we can have Miracast as an early kernel console display device. Then with LinuxBIOS we could work with wireless displays from power-on, without dongles. Our machines (with wifi adapters) already have the hardware capability, so the dongle is an added cost, extra attack surface, etc. It would need to store a pairing. It could keep Bluetooth pairings while it's at it. I think everyone with BT input devices is pretty tired of the PC ecosystem lagging a decade behind McOS in that regard.

[darkbasic]

Is there any ebuild for Gentoo?

[darkdragon-001]

Would be handy to integrate using an additional virtual display instead of "copying" a real one easily in the UI.

[polarathene]

Due to mention of mutter and Gnome in the name, I guess this won't be as useful on other DE like KDE or Sway?

I only know of Miraclecast as another related project (it intends to support both sink and source modes, but only does one atm), but last time I looked it seemed to have stalled a bit development wise

I suppose there isn't much advantage to Miracast vs RDP, SteamPlay or other remote display solutions? Other than perhaps maybe better cross-platform compatibility with some devices? Any other alternatives you're using for this sort of thing that works well?

[michaelo2]

Available in Fedora since +3 years (fedora 30):

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gnome-network-displays/c/c64a62c6c0cd6f80f988881d45a9d9c9be04d92e?branch=rawhide

https://repology.org/project/gnome-network-displays/versions

[BwackNinja]

Due to mention of mutter and Gnome in the name, I guess this won't be as useful on other DE like KDE or Sway?

I only know of Miraclecast as another related project (it intends to support both sink and source modes, but only does one atm), but last time I looked it seemed to have stalled a bit development wise

I suppose there isn't much advantage to Miracast vs RDP, SteamPlay or other remote display solutions? Other than perhaps maybe better cross-platform compatibility with some devices? Any other alternatives you're using for this sort of thing that works well?

Shouldn't be gnome-specific since what it really means by "mutter screencast portal" is just the xdg-desktop-portal implementation of the screencast interface, for which xdg-desktop-portal-wlr should be sufficient. It's on their wiki[1], but nobody has tested it so far.

[1] https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desk...-Compatibility

[Lanz]

KDE could really use an equivalent of this.

[Quackdoc]

casting is really nice, but I would much prefer if I had a way to easily use it as a sink instead. last I checked swapping between normal usage and a miracast sink was a pain

[wagner17]

Due to mention of mutter and Gnome in the name, I guess this won't be as useful on other DE like KDE or Sway?

It works on KDE. I have been using it on Fedora with my Samsung TVs.